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[jira] [Commented] (HDFS-2422) The NN should tolerate the same number of low-resource volumes as failed volumes

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Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:36:31 GMT

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Aaron T. Myers commented on HDFS-2422:
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bq. The transient loss of connectivity to an NFS mount currently reflects as if the NFS mount
is low on space (in fact, has 0 space left). This is unfortunate. If there were a way to distinguish
between the two, (I cannot think of any, but others may have an answer), it would be ideal
to have namenode come out of safe mode automatically when the transient error goes away.
I'm afraid I also can't think of a way to reliably distinguish between the two. We could,
for example, check that the directory actually exists (which it would not, in the case the
NFS mount disappears and the configured {{dfs.name.dir}} were a subdirectory of the mount),
but that could obviously be conflated with other issues besides NFS mount failure.
Even if there were a way to distinguish between the two, I would probably argue for not entering
SM in the first place, but that's a separate issue.
> The NN should tolerate the same number of low-resource volumes as failed volumes
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> Key: HDFS-2422
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2422
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: name-node
> Affects Versions: 0.24.0
> Reporter: Jeff Bean
> Assignee: Aaron T. Myers
> Attachments: HDFS-2422.patch
>
>
> We encountered a situation where the namenode dropped into safe mode after a temporary
outage of an NFS mount.
> At 12:10 the NFS server goes offline
> Oct 8 12:10:05 <namenode> kernel: nfs: server <nfs host> not responding,
timed out
> This caused the namenode to conclude resource issues:
> 2011-10-08 12:10:34,848 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeResourceChecker:
Space available on volume '<nfs host>' is 0, which is below the configured reserved
amount 104857600
> Temporary loss of NFS mount shouldn't cause safemode.
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